Bugatti Supersport With 1200hp: Truth Or Fiction?

Whispers of planned 264mph Veyron circle the internet

A 1200hp Bugatti Veyron could be revealed this summer, if rumours circling the ‘webosphere’ are to be believed.

French website BugattiPassion.com and Dutch mag Auto Week both suggest that the new car will be called the Supersport, following in the traditions of the Type 55 from the 1930s and the EB110 from the 1990s.

The car will be revealed at the Pebble Beach concours in California this August, although September’s Paris show has also been mooted as a venue for the official unveiling.

Word is that just 30 examples of the Supersport will be built (as opposed to 300 coupes and 150 Grand Sport convertibles), and that the car will be capable of a 264mph top speed and of sprinting to 62mph from rest in a scarcely believable 2.2secs.

Is it not claimed that the standard Veyron (dare I call it that) has approaching 1100bhp anyway? I seem to recall that bugatti's 987bhp, or rather 1001ps, meant that if an owner put the car on a rolling road it HAD to make a 1000 figure - so by their very nature, they're not far off that 1200bhp anyway.

Is it not claimed that the standard Veyron (dare I call it that) has approaching 1100bhp anyway? I seem to recall that bugatti's 987bhp, or rather 1001ps, meant that if an owner put the car on a rolling road it HAD to make a 1000 figure - so by their very nature, they're not far off that 1200bhp anyway.

Sounds like a quick win then Unleash 10% more power and rebadge the car

The Veyron is an exquisitely engineered hypercar-to-end-all-hypercars and has all the money, influence and resources of the VW group to draw on.

The Venom is someone’s project, built in a shed, on a shoestring, which will go backwards into a hedge the first time it’s driver puts their foot down. It just happens to have the patronage of some of the PH team who are mates with the constructors.

The Veyron is an exquisitely engineered hypercar-to-end-all-hypercars and has all the money, influence and resources of the VW group to draw on.

The Venom is someone’s project, built in a shed, on a shoestring, which will go backwards into a hedge the first time it’s driver puts their foot down. It just happens to have the patronage of some of the PH team who are mates with the constructors.

Is it not claimed that the standard Veyron (dare I call it that) has approaching 1100bhp anyway? I seem to recall that bugatti's 987bhp, or rather 1001ps, meant that if an owner put the car on a rolling road it HAD to make a 1000 figure - so by their very nature, they're not far off that 1200bhp anyway.

Sounds like a quick win then Unleash 10% more power and rebadge the car

Surely by that logic this model will claim 1200bhp and thus be in the region of 1400bhp in reality nez-pas?

Is it not claimed that the standard Veyron (dare I call it that) has approaching 1100bhp anyway? I seem to recall that bugatti's 987bhp, or rather 1001ps, meant that if an owner put the car on a rolling road it HAD to make a 1000 figure - so by their very nature, they're not far off that 1200bhp anyway.

Sounds like a quick win then Unleash 10% more power and rebadge the car

Surely by that logic this model will claim 1200bhp and thus be in the region of 1400bhp in reality nez-pas?

I was cynically assuming that they'd just run closer to published spec and hope nobody notices